The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 4

2 = bes Sots ss a toes mith yaatum. “Here was the new and sure cure robbed.—Beach Advance. , PAGE FOUR « ©THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ———— Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Editor a. LOCAN PA sentatives . COMPANY Di Kresge Bldg. ITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use th for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........ssssesseeeseees Glee Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)..... oe WS Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Ee THEN AND NOW September 25 will mark the 230th anniversary of the birth of newspapers in America. This initial bow of the press was made at Bos- ton. It was named “Publick Occurrences.” It frightened people of that day, just as news- papers seem fearful objects to some timid souls today. It was something new, something. they hadn’t seen before: therefore, it must not be. The Colonial legislative body immediately sup- pressed the first American newspaper. One issue only was published. And yet it contained noth- ing but news of the nearby neighborhood. It printed no editorials, no cartoon; it did not attack any person-nor political party, and did not attempt to propagate any political or social doctrine. But they suppressed it. ‘ The country has progressed in the last 230 years, Legislatures no longer suppress news- papers. Only a few judges with 1690-model brains think they can gag the press by jailing editors. tp so SOME RICHES! The world is beginning to wake up to the reck- less waste practiced for a half century and more in the production and use of its natural resources. Two-thirds of every ton of coal has gone: up into the air or into the dump. Enormous volumes of natural gas have been allowed to escape to the limits of an earth at- mosphere. . Hundreds of millions of barrels of petroleum have flowed over the ground to utter uselessness. And go all along the line. Everywhere you hear of steps being taken. to correct the wastefulness. Thus, if conservation becomes the rule hereafter with new discoveries below the surface, there will be less and:less need of far that the world will go short of coal and/| gasoline in the not very distant future. Canada doesn’t propose to be a squeezed-out orange like some sections of the United States. During the last five years coal fields and petro- leum deposits have been discqvered in Alberta, her northwest province, and already she is pass- ing laws against wasteful handling of these re- sources. ' One of Canada’s scientific investigators reports that “if the coal measures of Alberta can be care- ; fully conserved‘ and scientifically utilized, and all the gas, oil and other by-products be recovered to the best advantage, the whole world can be supplied with fuel and oil, dnd for a thousand years, from Alberta alone.” BUMPER CROP—SUCKERS Barnum died too early. Had he lived till today,’he’d have, without ‘doubt, revised his much-quoted statement, to read: “There’s one born every second.” America’s bumper crop this season, to judge by every report, is suckers. Fishing was never so good. A conservative and reliable banker declared the other day that, since the end of the war, three or four billions of dollars have been invested in new businesses—and most of it has been lost for the investors. Get-rich-quick schemes, despite recent inci- dents such as the Ponzi case and in the face of repeated exposures, are flourishing with unpre- cedented vigor. Oil, rubber, autos, foreign ex- change and a dozen other games are claiming their thousands of victims. Roger Babson, noted financial writer, pointed out the situation in a convincing manner the other day, when he wrote that money is like work; that the man who draws a far bigger salary than his _job is worth is in danger of losing both the salary and the job, and that the man who expects a far bigger interest return than his money is worth is likely to lose the profits and the principal. There is a world of safe investments offered today with fair profits in return. No safe invest- ment can ever offer the tremendous profits pic- tured by the prospectus: writers for wild-cat promoters. : Tie ae NO CURE-ALL Slowly, radium, once hailed as the wonder ele- ment and the cure-all of modern medicine, takes its place with the other nostrums and means of modern medicine. There is always the loud cry of the end of hu- man suffering when a new drug or a new system of medicine makes its appearance. So it was for cancer, which kills its quotavof ‘one: manvin|: 8 and one woman in 12 each year. But—it is a remedy, not a cure. Radium'has the quality of emanating.rays and these rays kill flesh, Radium burns are severe and long in healing. ‘ Cancer cells are, of course, abnormal cells and all abnormal cells are less healthy and less vig- orous than the normal body tissue. Therefore, reasoned the medical men, that which attacks normal flesh should attack with even greater power abnormal flesh. - That’is the basis of radium treatment for can- cer. The cancer is exposed tq the rays of radium. The rays strike through the wholesome flesh, but, the theory runs, they do mote damage to the cancer. The cure of cancer by radium application, say the experts, depends largely upon the position, shape and duration of the growth aswell as upon the patient. pi Radium may be a cure for-cancer but the best experts won’t say yet that it is the cure. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They: are Be sented here in order vhet ‘our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being i the press of the day. IN HIS OWN HOME TOWN \\ Tucked away inconspicuously in yesterday’s batch of census reports ‘was the. announcement that the little town of Marion, Ohio, had grown exactly 53 per cent during the past ten years. In 1910 its population was 18,322. Today it is 27,081. Of Editor Warren G. Harding of The Marion Daily Star, his home town folks say that he is the best booster Marion has.’ We judge by the census report that his work has been effective—and we judge by his recent public addresses that he is in- terested in doing the same sort of thing for the United States of America.—St. Paul Dispatch. A REPUBLICAN BLUNDER The fundamental issue of the presidential cam- paign is Wilsonism. There is where the line is most sharply drawn. In view of this issue it is logical and proper that’ the Republican campaign be devoted extensively to emphasizing the point, but,the Republican campaign should steer its course clear of the'rocks of exaggeration, and overstatement. There are enough facts without drawing upon imagination, The speakers’ pamph- lets issued by the Republican committee are open to this criticism. There is entirely too much bal- derdash about the pageantry and splendor attend- ing the receptions given Mr. Wilson while in Europe functioning as the American peace com- mission. He was not responsible for what looks like gilded and royal.nonsense to serious-minded Americans and which was, after all, only, the European way of showing respect to the great nation he represented. It is a mistake to harp upon this line when there is so much that is real, sound and convincing to which general attention shauld be called. The danger of reaction . is obvious. The Republican committee has a, plethora of good material and should make the most of it. It is what Wilson was and did, not the foolish and wasteful fuss London and Paris made over him, that counts with the people. It is Wilson who is,on trial before the voters, not the court of St: James or the official coterie of Paris. Our democratic idealism has been affronted by ‘Wil- sonism active, not passive. This election is going to turn on what Wilson did at home and abroad, not upon what was done to him or with him by foreigners whose ways and ideas are not our ways and ideas.—St. Paul Dispatch. § MAY ADOPT GOLDEN VALLEY PLAN The suggestion that the’ office of county as- sessor be created on a civil service basis seems a good thing. While we are not kindly disposed to any more offices as a general thing, the crea- | tion of a tax department in the county, in charge of a man competent intelligently to supervise the taxing power, would help do away with the glaring inequalities of the present system. The further recommendation of the county auditors at the meeting in Bismarck last week 'that a plan of classification of lands be put into effect by the tax commissioner would mean the adoption of the plan originated in this country and used to good effect last year and this, it being demonstrated was the fairest and most equitable method of arriving at a just basis of taxation yet devised. This plan can be put into effect for about one and one-quarter cents an acre, but when once adopted would be carried on at very small expense, very-much less eXpense, in fact, and with greater fairness to the landowner, than the catch-as-catch-can system now in vogue. It is plain if the tax commissioner’s plan to place the tax rate at seven-tenths of a mill goes| ’ through that all hands may look for a boost in valuations that will make the past boosts look like thirty cents. It sounds good to make a talk about how the state levied a four-mill tax four years ago and one and ninety-one hundredth mills last year, but when one stops to think that valua- tions have beén boosted three or four hundred per cent it is difficult to see where the taxpayers are being benefited. In fact, all hands know by this time that they are not being benefited, but BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE ° X MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1920, Washington, Aug. 30.—One-half of 1 per cent, it seems, applies to many soft drinks,'these days as well as to alcoholic ‘beverages. _ For, instance, government ‘chemists announce that some of the new “orange drinks” of- fered the publi¢ contam. much less tent. These imitations, Uncle. Sam finds, “usually are concocted of sweet- ened, artificially carbonated) water, colored with a dye‘to imitate orange juice and flavored with a little oil from the peel of. the orange.” Orange juice is one of the most healthful of beverages and is of spec- ial medicinal) and nutritive value for infants and ‘invalids... These ‘imita- tions, however.: while they, may not contain ingredients injurious to healthy adults, lack the medicinal qualities of the real juice and should not be substituted for babies, children or the sick. When orange juice is desired as part of a diet the only de- pendable way is to buy the fruit and| > {I & squeeze the juice. * * Probably no economic barometer is more dependable than a nation’s em- ployment and payroll figures. If that is true, the public may profitably study figures just gathered by the bu-} reau of labor statistics covering em- ployment and wage conditions in 14 lines of industry ‘for the months of June and July just past. Only three of.the 14 industries show an increase in personnel em- ployed. Paperhanging leads with an increase of 3 per cent; cotton manu- facturing is second with 1.8 per cent and automobile making third with 1.2 per cent. Decreases ranged. from .1 per cent in cigar-making to17 per cent in car building and repairing (while car shortages are tying up railway: shipments on every road in the country) and 5$ per cent in woolen manufacture. | \ John KYamer, prohibition commis- sioner, may be able to get, some new ideas on dry law enforcement in the coming International Congress Against “Alcoholism, to be held in Washington Sept. 21-26. For one of the delegates in attendance will be Dr. M. Helenius-Seppala, who is the Kramer of Finland—the only other official anywhere in the world charg- ed with governing a whole nation’s | beverages. ! piLSbei CS ames, The United States-is the largest wood-using country in the world. ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine é “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is gen- uine Aspirin proved safe by millions } and prescribed by_physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an unbrok- en “Bayer. package” which contains proper directions to relieve Headache, Toothache, Earache, ‘Neuralgia, Rheu- matism, Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger “Bayer packages.” Aspirin is trade mark Bay- ter Manufacture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. \ than half a’ per cent of orange con- ]. ~~ HOW SUFFRAGE WAS RATIFIED a ce In September. | > signed. Revolution and tween Great Britain and America. Oregon was the first state to make Labor Day a legal holiday. Sept. 3, 1783—Treaty of Versailles This ended the American restored peace be- Sept. 159 1774—First ContinentaF Congress met in Philadelphia. Sept. 6, 1757 — Lafayette, French friend to American colonists, born. Sept. 6, 1901.—President McKinley shot by assassin at Buffalo. Sept. 10, 1818—Perry’ won famous: Put-in-Bay victory .over British ‘on Lake Erie. i Sept: 14, 1814—Francis scott Ke: wrote “The Star Spangiéd Banner.” * Sept. 14, 1847—City of Mexico cap- tured’ by American’ army under Gen- eral Scott. 3 ¥ Sept. 17, 1796—Washington made farewell address. Sept. 19, 1881—President. Garfield died from bullet ‘wound inflicted by assassin. . ver in United States, Sept. 21,.1784—First daily newspa- the American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, issued. Sept. 22, 1862—Negro emancipation proclamation issued by President’ Lin- coln, : Sept. 26, 1531—Balboa, Spanish pi- oneer in’ America, ‘discovered Pacific ocr ean, Sept. 28, 1850—Congress abolished flogging in naval and merchant ships. Sept. 29, 1915—First telephone mes- sage a¢ross continent, from New York’ to Mare Island, California. JUST JOKING <, A Shrewd Woman jet Mrs. A—Why do you watch: the baseball bulletins so closely? I Mrs., B.—My husband is a fan and make it a rule never ta, discuss household or millinery expenges with him except on. days when the] home team wins.—Boston Trans- cript. + “Give Till It Hurts” Grownups may leam. something from little Johnnie. On. the morning of his birthday this notice was found pasted on the door of his room: ~~: EV ERETT TRUE _ CEI. WUST A SECOND, CADY—THIS BRD ALWAYS RIDES To HS TENTH Floor,“ 2 BuT He WILLE /F HANG AROUND THE DOOR OF Tas CAGS Wt! “Remember my birthday; give till it hurts.’—Oregon Journal. Pleasant News. Young Man—What did your pa say when he heard that I had kissed-your sister? Bi ane Little’ Girl—He said that was en- couraging.—Boston Transcript. ot ——— oe Gold Reserves ‘' —o The amotint of gold reserve of the United States available against notes in actual circulation on July 1, 1920, was more than three times that of any of the nations of Westérn Furone, according to information ‘published by the National Bank of Commerce in New ‘York in the September number of its magazine, Commetce Monthly. This ‘country had $2,234,000,000 in gold’ as against $4,512,000,000 in notes, giving it a reserve of 49.5 per cent-of the paper circulation, a ratio which -also far exceeded that of any European country. The nation most nearly approach- ing this country’s percentage. of re- Serve was Great Britain whose gold holdings amounted to 31.5 per cent of her note circulation, while France om the,same date had only 9.6 per cent. Germany, and’ Austria had reserves of only 1.6 per cent. and 0.4 per cent, re- spectively... Italy, on September 30, 1919, the latest date for which data are available, possessed a gold reserve of only 7.8 per cent, of her paper ‘cur- rney, says the bank’s magazine. “ Wide differences are shown by the bank also to exist between the total ‘amount of notes outstanding in the various countries. The $4.512,000,000 of paper money in the United States compares with $16.104,000,000 in Ger- tmany and $12.559,000,000 in Austri Hungary. Great Britain’s note cir- culation on June 30, 1920 was only $2,258,000.000 and’the French total of notes outstanding at about the same date was equal to $7,288,000,000. It- aly onSeptember 30, 1919: had $3,157,- 000.000 of paper outstanding. In giv- ing these amounts the bank has con- verted the units of foreign currencies. Into dollars at their respective pars of exchange. o— lag About one-fifth of the country’s timber is publicly owned., ey By Condo ais Let ’em ore!! | tl O74 (! REVERE. MEMORY..OF MACEO Negro Patriot Said to Hold the Chief Place in the Hoarts of Cuban Masses. Graves in the cemetery of Santlago de Cuba are family affairs, built of cement and six or eight “stories” deep, so that the coffins are set one above the ‘Other, as their time comes, in perfect chronological order, writes Harry A. Franck inthe Century. | Over the top, commonly ‘a bare | three or four feet above the grass, is | j laid a huge stone slab, preferably of marble, with immense brass or nickel rings at each corner by which to lift ft, and space on its top for a poetic epitaph to.each succeeding oceupnnt. As in jall Spanish countries, the tombs df all but the wealthiest in- ; mates are rented for a term of years, at the end of which time, if the de- | scendants fail to renew the contract, | the bodies are tossed into a common graveyard, to make room for those of greener memory. Marti, the Cuban “Father of Lib- erty,’ Is buried -here, and Estrada Palma, promoted from humble peda- gogue in an American school to first president of Cuba. But neither holds the chief place in the heart of the Cuban masses: That is reserved for 1 Maceo, the negro general killed Just before the dawn‘of independence dur- ing a foolhardy scouting expedition In the woods of Cachual, in company with a bare half-dozen soldiers, Cuban “Memorial Day” is observed throyghout’ the island with much spouting of poetry, and laying on of flowers, on December 7, the anniver- sary of Maceo's death at the hands of the Spaniards, HAS SUPERB WATER POWER That of British Columbia Ie Said to Equal Five Niagaras in Its Possibilities. * "The potential water power of Brit- ish Columbia, experts declare, is equal to that of five Niagaras, Pouring down from the mountains comes enough wa- ter te develop 3,000,000 horse-power. Niagara falls, when all the water that {s available on the Canadian side has been harnessed will produce only 650,- 000 horse power.” Only 123,000 electric horse power 1s now developed by the plants supply- ing Vancouver, New Westminster and the towns in the vicinity. This power turns the wheels of mills ard fac- tories, propels the street cars of these cities and provides lights’ for the streets and homes. If the entire «ealth of Britisi- Columbia in water power were harnessed it would be sufficient to provide power, light and heat for 40 cities the size of Vancouver and New Brunswick combined. With this cheap power available, economists predict that some day the province, will become one of the greatest manu- facturing centers of Canada. Fine Tune Will Live. Probably the majority of chureh- goers will agree with the vicar of Well- ingborough in his refusal to allow the church bells of his parish to ring out! “Tipperary” in honor of the great; peace, for In these matters one must of course’ draw the Hne somewhere. Yet, when the vicar asks: “If ‘Tipperary,’ why ‘not ‘Tommy, Make} Room for Uncle?” the analogy is not very apt. Both songs, ft is true, are not—well, classical music, But the; glorious associations of “Tipperary” have raised it far above such criticism ; and though the famous tune may never reach the height of a church belfry, it is, nevertheless, likely to go down to posterity as -the immortal “Mar- Seillaise” of the Old Contemptibles.— London, Chronicle. ‘ Happy on His Way. In one of the Indianapolis schools recently. the teacher announced to her pupils ‘that they would study China during’ the afternoon, and told the children, to bring vatlous' products ‘of the country. Very excitedly a little chap rushed into the grocery store and told the grocer to give,him a nickel’s worth. of sassafras, as he was to study China at school, and the grocer told . him she must have said Indiana, but he gave him Gunpowder and Imperial mixed;-instead of the good old Hooster , product, and sent*him happily on his way. A One-Funnel Cunarder. The new Cunarder Scythia, accord- ing to an English newspaper, is to have only one funnel, for all her 20,- 000 tons. Time was when a liner’s standing was in direct ratio with the number of her funnels, Four funnels indicated Al rank, One famous steamship was, it is said, equipped with an unnecessary fourth funnel simply for appearance’s sake. But now, it seems, the funnels are to go, for’ only one ts really necessary.— From the Ouflook, u Seals Migrate Early. * The protective meafure adopted by the government for the benefit of the seals in American waters has'been en- tirely successful, as indicated by the great number of animals seen to be migrating to the Arctic seas. The migration was three weeks earlier than usual, and an unusually large number of animals were noted on their way to the north. New Scrap Started. Wife, (on rainy holiday)—John, let's go somewhere, I've been shut up in the house all day. Hub—You mean shut in, my dear. You can’t truthfully say you were shut up.—-Boston ‘Transcript. Sell vour cream and poultry to our agent, or ship direct to Northern Produce -Co., Bis- marck. : Write us for’ prices on cream and poultry.—Northern Produce Co. 4 —~ Ae: e lt | | i ( ’ \ ( h ec 4 t 1 § hen